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any other man in the Confederate States of America is scarcely a practical question. Speaking in a general way we should surmise that the citizens of the Confederate States entertain no such apprehensions of any mortal now born, or to be born hereafter. If any individual not yet launched upon the tide of time intends to be born for any such purpose, we advise him to reconsider his determination. The times and the genius of the people are not propitious to such enterprises. "Cæsar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell," and any gentleman that undertakes to make slaves of Southern white men may profit by their example. The very preposterousness of such a notion exposes the serious refuter of it to the painful consequences of a writ de lunatico inquirendo. The only master who, booted and spurred, proposes to ride and lash and destroy us, is Abraham Lincoln. Virginia was long in believing that even he could be such a madman and knave. Somewhat slowly and reluctantly sh